Bryan Vopat, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Kansas City, KSNPI 1922260462
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (43.7%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 56.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,704, 6.7 times the $1,006 reported in 2019.
Across 176 payments — averaging $123.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$12K
- International Life Sciences$4K
- Novastep Inc.$2K
- Vericel Corporation$1K
- Titan Surgical Group, LLC$1K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$585
- plus $720 from 13 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $6910.98 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Stryker$34K
- Arthrex$1K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,51044%
- Travel & lodging$4,24619%
- Food & beverage$6,74631%
- Education$1,2006%
- Gifts$790%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker(2 entities) | 70 | $12,389 |
| International Life Sciences | 4 | $3,729 |
| Novastep Inc. | 13 | $1,757 |
| Vericel Corporation | 63 | $1,349 |
| Titan Surgical Group, LLC | 3 | $1,250 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 1 | $585 |
| Medline Industries LP | 6 | $203 |
| Trilliant Surgical LLC. | 1 | $154 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 3 | $64 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $49 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $29 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Ossdsign USA Incorporated | 1 | $22 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $14 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $13 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $13 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- INFINITY$3,750
- HOFFMANN$3,750
- FLEXBAND$3,675
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$2,238
- PRIME SERIES$1,466
- ICONIX$1,427
- PECAPLASTY$635
- CENTROLOCK MIS Bunion Correction$628
- RIGIDLOOP$585
- BRISTOW-LATARJET$585
- VISUALIZATION$585
- INSPACE$209
- BIOFOAM$172
- CITREFIX$165
- GRAFTJACKET$155
- Arsenal Ankle$154
- NA$152
- VARIAX$146
- BIO4$134
- ALLOFIBER$131
How this compares
$21,780 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 197 orthopaedic surgery providers in Kansas.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 13 | $476 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Kansas City
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- Brandon CarlsonKansas City$299K
- Brent WiseKansas City$97K
- John SchroeppelKansas City$28K
- Mitchell BirtKansas City$26K
- Spencer FalconKansas City$23K
- Katie SmeltzerKansas City$19K
- Everett WilkinsonKansas City$12K
- Jacob BrubacherKansas City$11K
- Jacob DeisterTopeka$185K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.